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Industrial Designer

Nelson Wah

Los Angeles, CA
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  • About

    Industrial designer. I love to create meaningful and inspiring products.

    If you like my work, please drop me a line.

    visit my website and blog at nelsonwah.com

  • Education
    • Product Design
      Art Center College of Design
      2007 - 2009
      Art Center Merit Scholarship recipient
    • Bachelor's Degree Biomedical Engineering
      The Johns Hopkins University
      2001 - 2005
      Graduated with an Electrical Engineering concentration Bloomberg Scholar - Full-ride scholarship sponsored by Michael Bloomberg
  • Experience
    • Contract Industrial Designer
      Calty Design Research, Inc. (a Toyota Company)
      Nov 2020 - Present (5 years 7 months)
    • Industrial Designer
      ROBRADY Design
      Aug 2020 - Present (5 years 10 months)
    • Principal, Industrial Design
      Nelson Wah Design
      Jan 2010 - Present (16 years 5 months)
      Industrial design consultant. Freelance and collaborative projects. Form development, conceptual design, ideation, product development, design research, strategy, visualization, 3D CAD, quick models and prototypes

      Some clients include:
      Herman Miller
      NBA
      Anta Sports
      BE Aerospace
      KASK
      Huami
      2LA
      TCL/Alcatel OneTouch
      Privoro
      Norsk
      Soen Audio
    • Industrial Designer
      BMW Designworks
      Los Angeles, CA
      Sep 2018 - Nov 2018 (2 months)
      Industrial designer for multiple confidential projects in transportation, consumer electronics, and healthcare.
    • Industrial Designer, Advanced Design
      Selle Royal SpA
      Pozzoleone, Italy
      Feb 2015 - Jul 2017 (2 years 5 months)
      Industrial designer for newly created Advanced Design team for Selle Royal Group, parent company to iconic cycling brands Selle Royal, Fi’zi:k, Crankbrothers, and BROOKS England.
    • Contract Industrial Designer
      Fuhu, Inc
      El Segundo, CA
      Jan 2015 - Jun 2015 (5 months)
      Working onsite with in-house industrial design team to design and develop products for Nabi brand and other partnering companies.
    • Contract Industrial Designer
      BMW Group DesignworksUSA
      Los Angeles, CA
      Dec 2013 - Mar 2014 (3 months)
      Industrial designer for multiple confidential projects.

      Some clients include: Corsair Gaming, TaylorMade-adidas Golf, Umbra, Haier.
    • Industrial Designer
      Soulcake Creative
      San Clemente, CA
      Feb 2011 - Nov 2013 (2 years 9 months)
      Designed and created soulful products for a wide range of industries. Working together with small startups, large corporations, and everything in between.

      Clients include: Samsung, Cobra PUMA Golf, Altec Lansing, iFrogz, ZAGG, Dane-Elec, Elite Fitness, Thales Avionics, Cohu Electronics, Atom Inc, Powell Tools, Time Bomb, EWI, KIA, Dana/Spicer, Oxygenics, Rockwell Time, Electric Visual, INDUS.
    • Industrial Design Intern
      Karten Design
      Marina del Rey, CA
      May 2010 - Aug 2010 (3 months)
      Assigned to do key design work, research, concept sketching, mockups and prototypes, brainstorms, and presentations.

      Clients include: Simplehuman, Carefusion, Magtek, Duracell
    • Research Assistant
      Johns Hopkins University Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics & Modeling
      Baltimore, MD
      May 2004 - May 2005 (1 year)
      Aided in developing a computational model for electrical excitations in the heart. I was tasked with exploring the possibility of a "late sodium ion channel," modeling this ion channel based on published clinical data, and running computer simulations to test the model.
    • Research Assistant
      Johns Hopkins Medicine
      Baltimore, MD
      Jan 2003 - Aug 2003 (7 months)
      Conducted lab experiments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease research.
    • Summer Research Intern
      National Institutes of Health
      Bethesda, MD
      Jun 2002 - Aug 2002 (2 months)
      Aided researchers in data collection and experiments in ligand-gated ion channels
  • Awards

    IDEA Finalist 2014, GOOD Design 2015, iF Design 2015 - BMW Designworks for Corsair Gaming

    Golf Digest 2013 Hot List Gold Medal - Cobra AMP Cell Driver.

    Patents for Brooks England, Cobra PUMA Golf, Norsk products.

    Featured on Coroflot

    Featured on Behance

    Art Center Merit Scholarship.

    Bloomberg Scholar - full tuition scholarship at Johns Hopkins

  • Industries
    • Footwear
    • Luxury Goods
    • Residential Furniture
    • Sporting Goods
    • Healthcare
  • Skills
    • 3D Modeling
    • Creative Direction
    • Design Research
    • Furniture Design
    • Fusion360
    • Industrial Design
    • Product Design
    • Research
    • Sketching
    • SolidWorks
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    @nelsonwah, member since 2010
    • Following 84
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